Description of selected specimens from the medical section of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, exhibited in room no. 2 / J.J. Woodward.

  • United States. Army Medical Department (1968- )
Date:
1876
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Credit: Description of selected specimens from the medical section of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, exhibited in room no. 2 / J.J. Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    105. (536.) Urinary organs, showing extensive alterations resulting from stricture of the nrethra. The pelvis of the right kidney is greatly dilated, and its pyramids encroached upon, so that the kidney forms a multilocular cyst, the walls of which are composed of atrophied renal tissue. The pelvis of the left kidney is also greatly dis- tended. The ureters are dilated to size of the forefinger. The muscular coat of the bladder is hypertrophied, the thickened bundles of muscle forming an areolar arrange- ment, through the meshes of which a number of herniae of the mucous membrane have taken place, forming oval cysts, the largest of which is over two inches, the smallest about a quarter of an inch in diameter. These cysts communicate with the cavity of the bladder by comparatively narrow orifices. From a soldier of the 122d Ohio, age 43, who had a stricture of the membranous portion of the urethra, which still, however, permitted the passage of urine. He was admitted to hospital in arti- culo mortis, and had constant dribbling of urine, with involuntary evacuations of the foeces. {Cat. of Med. Sect., 1867, p. 109.) Contributed by Assistant Surgeon R. F. Weir, U. S. A.